Anders Jensen is the Assistant Professor of Public Policy at The Kennedy School, Harvard University. Dr. Jensen received his Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2016 and spent one year at NBER as a post-doctoral fellow before joining HKS. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER and an International Research Associate at IFS.
His research focuses on public economics and development economics. One set of projects in his work seeks to study the factors that shape the capacity to tax and the choice of tax policy over the long run of development. His second line of work consists in working with tax authorities and other government departments in developing countries.
Through close collaborations and the use of large micro-datasets, these projects study what governments can do, given their constrained capacity to tax, to incrementally improve tax administration, tax enforcement, tax policy, and tax morale. Because of this, Dr. Jensen is currently collaborating with governments in Ghana, Zambia, Liberia, and Brazil.
